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A very good resource for beginning bloggers. The mistakes you mentioned are so true. I remember when I began blogging, I remember not changing my admin settings and still using the default tagline for 3 months . So this is certainly a mistake a newbie should’t make at all.

I also agree with overloading tags. I remember my site map having issue because I had too manmany tags which I fixed by removing some of them.

Hi Erik,
I must say this is my first time here and m loving it already. I agree with the points you mentioned here these mistakes are really common with wordpress users especially image optimization and back up. i would say its not been long i started optimizing my images when i found out the effects and also at first i was lazy about backing up until i changed host in my wp blog and my new host does not do auto back up for me so i had no choice but to back up manually using filezilla.
Thanks for sharing,

Many newbie bloggers don’t take these things to do very seriously. I also still not have done a few of them because of shortage of time. But that’s not directly related to security or SEO of the blog.

To lay the strong foundation of the blog it is must to put every brick at right place and in due course of time; else after construction of the building it may become quite difficult the change the foundation.

Great post my friend. Admin profile is a big one that is so easily forgotten. I was one of those that used the admin profile for a while because I did not know any better but someone gave me the same advice one day. Hackers definitely will take advantage of anyone that may have the admin profile.

Favicon is a real cool idea. Anything we can do to make ourselves stand out from the crowd and be unique is good. I have seen some very cool Favicon’s since being online.

These are all very good tips. Tags and categories really stood out to me. I recently was looking over my categories and consolidated a few just so it was easier for me but I did not realize that too many could hurt my SEO rankngs, so I appreciate your views on that for sure.

As good old users of WordPress, we might take those steps for granted, but we should never forget that new bloggers enter the scene of blogging each and every day, and if they are like me when I started, all of this probably sounds like Greek to them.

When I first started using WordPress, years ago, you didn’t even find blog posts like yours here, I had to purchase an eBook in order to set by WP platform completely.

Hi Erik Sir,
Awesome post indeed.
I think this post is the one I was looking for. As you know, I have started my first wordpress blog in last month.
I also forgot to change my favicon. Favicon indicates the blog authority, doesn’t it sir.
Anyway, sir I did add categories to my blog, no tags. I am a bit confused about the difference between categories and tags. So please make me aware of the difference sir.
I want to know one thing also sir. Among the two cache plugins you shared, which one is the most efficient?
All tips you shared are superb sir. I really love it.
Thank you so much for yet another awesome job.
Have a great weekend.
Regards,
Rahul

Hello Rahul,
I think favicon should reflect our logo.
It’s part of building your brand.

My favicon is the “$” as dollar and NoPassiveIncome.

Each of your blog posts have a category. It’s imperative.
While tags are optional and they are like keywords that describe all or part of your posts.

Basically categories are for grouping your posts.
While tags are used to describe just specific details of your articles.

The two cache plugins listed in this post (W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache.) are both popular and widely used. It’s just up to you. They are both great and do the same job.
I prefer and use “WP Super Cache”, it’s easy to set up.

First off it feels good to be back here after my absence due to work engagement. Happy New Year also. Great post although I cannot say I have not made some of the mistakes myself in the past and some I still need to work on/ ‘clean up’ Nonetheless, it is a great reminder.

I love to visit blogs with a great theme as well.. One question, do you know of a specific number or the maximum number of tags or categories that is considered ideal? Would love to hear your thoughts.

Hi Yvonne,
good to see you again and happy new year! 🙂
Hope this 2015 started in the best way.

About your question, I think it’s common sense.
It depends on your niche and if your blog has one or multiple topics.
I think, also, the shorter number you use, the best for your readers.
Finally keep in mind usability for your visitors.

Said this, I think 5-8 categories and 3-5 tags per post should reflect most of the websites around.

You have some of the most basic things a blogger needs to know for startup and they all makes sense. Some of these were my common mistakes when I was starting with WordPress… oh by the way, WordPress is indeed one of the most popular and easy-to-use CMS there is for bloggers!

Actually there are other mistakes too, and one of them that I actually experienced way back before when I was starting with WordPress are those cool plugins. Why? Most of the new bloggers are prone to use so many plugins that they forget that it may affect the performance of their website leading into bad user experience.

Yeah! Jetpack eats a lot of resources and noticed it when I was trying to optimize my blog site using a Profiler plugin.

Hostgator, how’s your experience with it? I am planning to move my main blog site because it is already getting bigger (almost 3 years now). My current webhosting have a disk limit and it’s becoming a problem now.

Absolutely positive experience with HostGator.
I’ve been on shared server for more than 4 years (“Baby Croc” plan, around 9$ per month), and recently upgraded to a dedicated server. Loading speed is unique now! 🙂

You have listed key essentials to blogging and I think it’s awesome! I used a lot of your advice when creating my blogs. Might I add, cause this is a big peeve of mine, when bloggers set up their sharing buttons to be sure to use one that allows you to customize your Twitter share by adding your @TwitterName to it. Makes it a lot easier for someone to follow along as well as network with you.

Thanks for this list. We recently moved our blog from Tumblr to WordPress and it is good to see that we did cover most of your points. Since WordPress is such a complex system with so many options, I guess we will keep working on the blog for the next couple of months. – (I doubt a blog is ever finished 🙂

Good tips your are written here. Yes. It is true that have to change the WordPress Mistakes and should follow above tips. It is necessary to check every aspects of the WordPress blog settings to carry on or Secure your new blog. Thanks for sharing such a nice article here!! 🙂

Hi Erik Emanuelli , thanks a lot to you .
I’m very glad on you for your effective post which is necessary for us to work in WordPress .
I think you mention the most common 13 mistakes for working in WordPress ; and I am very exited because I learn about some important mistakes from your post.

thanks for these nice tips your are written here. Yes. It is true that have to change the WordPress Mistakes and should follow above tips. It is necessary to check every aspects of the WordPress blog settings to carry on or Secure your new blog. Thanks for sharing such a nice article here!! 🙂

It doesn’t matter, In which field you are working. You would definitely make mistakes and these mistakes will help you to learn something new. So we should never afraid of doing mistakes.

In this article, the WordPress mistakes which you have mentioned above are very much common which most of the bloggers or webmasters make when they start their 1st WordPress site.

When bloggers like me do mistakes then It is obvious that they can’t generate that result which they want because of that mistake. When It happens, they again start doing all the things and tries to find what they did wrong in previous turn and then they find their mistakes and learn from that mistake.

So some how, mistakes helped us to learn new things. Right? 😀

Most of the people think that doing mistakes will give them failures which they never want but they should understand that every successful person makes mistake at their initial stages and learn from them.

Every WordPress blogger did mistakes when they started using WordPress for the 1st time and same thing I did. When I started my very 1st blog then I didn’t knew that we can also create a BackUp of our WordPress site and I didn’t created any BackUp.

One day, by mistake I deleted the database of my site and completely ruined my few months of hard work. That mistake taught me that never leave any site without creating complete backup of your hard work.

After that day, I always create backup of my each WordPress site.

I would like to give a great Thanks to you for covering these amazing WordPress mistakes which people can use to learn from them. 😀

Hi Erik,
Few days back i started a using WordPress and self hosted blogs before that I am using google blogger. After a reading your blog post I realise that I am making same mistakes while using the WordPress. These are very simple things but makes lots of difference. Thank you for adding this valuable information regarding the WordPress.. )

As im, a new blogger and I need this kind of tips to make my blog very well and user-friendly. I need you support the author. My blog is so slow, and I have switched my hosting GoDaddy to site ground, but I had lot migrating problems, and I don’t how can I solve that thing.

Great article, and while I knew most of these tips there are a still a few I didn’t know about. One thing I see on some new (and maybe even older) WordPress site is people don’t disable/remove the meta admin widget from their sidebar. No reader/viewer/client/customer, etc needs to see a link for you to log into your WordPress dashboard when they got to your site. That tab is completely useless (just go to yoursite.com/wp-admin) and should be removed as soon as your site is active.

Great Post Erik!
Thanks for this post, it’s more easier for me to help friends create their blogs without me explaining much and just have to let them read your post. I definitely agree on having a backup of your content, as we may not always know what will happen to our server. Having a back up ready will save a lot of time and effort.